Letters of Two Brides (Electronic book text)

Honora de Balzac is considered the founder of social realism. Balzac was the first writer to write about the all social levels of the social scene in France. His vast collection of works encompasses the Restoration period and the July Monarchy. La Comedie Humaine was written between 1799 and 1850. This collection contains 95 novels, stories, and essays. M moires de deux jeunes mari es (Letters of Two Brides) is an epistolary novel. In 1842 it was published as the first work in the second volume of Sc nes de la vie priv e, tome II or Scenes from Private Life, Volume 2 of Balzac's La Com die humaine. Two young French women, Louise de Chaulieu and Ren e de Maucombe become close friends during their novitiate at the Carmelite convent. When they leave the convent, their lives follow two very different paths. Louise chooses romance, while Ren e takes a more pragmatic approach to her life. Their friendship stays alive in their letters, which continue for a dozen years from 1823 through 1835.